closer to reality. More work remains to be done. st_mtime should
be the most complete based on IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, a
review of ufs_vnops.c, and some experimentation.
Those who really need this information can find it in the include file.
* Include a succinct description of the st_birthtime field.
Approved by: re (bmah)
Stop calling system calls "function calls".
Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".
When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
Unlike other filesystem objects, symbolic links do not have an owner,
group, access mode, times, etc. Instead, these attributes are taken from
the directory that contains the link. The only attributes returned from
an lstat() that refer to the symbolic link itself are the file type
(S_IFLNK), size, blocks, and link count (always 1).
This is bogus, and disagrees with the implementation and symlink(7).
Removed it.
PR: docs/10269
Submitted by: Tolik <tolik@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
in a bunch of man pages.
Use the correct .Bx (BSD UNIX) or .At (AT&T UNIX) macros
instead of explicitly specifying the version in the text
in a bunch of man pages.